The String’s The Thing

Mark Fewer has been an interpreter of music past and present in virtually every genre or setting you will find a violin in. From appearances at famed concert halls such as Carnegie Hall, Wigmore and Salle Pleyel, to venues such as Bartok House (Budapest), the Forum (Taipei) and Le Poisson Rouge (NYC), Fewer has appeared as featured guest soloist with ensembles ranging from the Zapp Quartet of Amsterdam, the Fodens-Richardson Brass Band (UK), the Chieftains, Stevie Wonder and his band and the major symphonies of Toronto, San Francisco, Melbourne and more. 

He has held the positions of Concertmaster of the Vancouver Symphony, Artist-in-Residence at Stanford University, William Dawson Scholar at McGill University and Artist-in-Residence at the Glamorgan Festival of Music in Cardiff, Wales. As a chamber musician, he was a founding member of the Duke Piano Trio, violinist with the SuperNova and St. Lawrence String Quartets and was an original member of the ARC Ensemble. He is currently first violinist of the Axelrod String Quartet at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC, where the group performs and records exclusively on Stradivari and Amati instruments from the museum’s famed collection. After 16 years as the founding Artistic Director of the SweetWater Music Festival, he is now in his seventh season at the helm of Stratford Summer Music. 

He is an Associate Professor of Violin at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. 

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